setting the cursor in the currentcell on keypress

[Julie Levy]

I have a gridcontrol with currency cells and i want the user to be able to enter negative numbers (hit the negative sign) without clicking into the cell. I can handle the key press and have the entire cell contents selected by doing a CurrentCell.BeginEdit(). But what i really want is no selection, just the cursor active inside the cell. How can i do this?
We are using version 5.2.0.25.
Thanks,
Julie

[Rajadurai C]

Hi Julie,

Thanks for your interest in Syncfusion products.

This feature can be achieved by means of the following codesnippet in CurrentCellKeyPress event handler.

void gridControl1_CurrentCellKeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
  GridCurrentCell cc = this.gridControl1.CurrentCell;
  GridCurrencyTextBoxCellRenderer cb = cc.Renderer as GridCurrencyTextBoxCellRenderer;
  if(e.KeyChar == '-')
  {
    if(!this.gridControl1.CurrentCell.IsEditing)
    {
      this.gridControl1.CurrentCell.BeginEdit();
      cb.ReplaceSel("$0");
      cc.Renderer.ControlValue = string.Empty;
    }
  }
}

Please refer the following sample that does the same.
http://websamples.syncfusion.com//samples/Grid.Windows/F77630/main.htm

Regards,
Rajadurai

[Julie Levy]

Thanks for your response and the sample code.
However, the behavior i need is that the "-" still toggles the sign of the value in the cell, the same as if the user first clicked into the cell and then hit the "-".

I found that the following works:
this.CurrentCell.MoveTo(this.CurrentCell.RowIndex, this.CurrentCell.ColIndex, GridSetCurrentCellOptions.SetFocus)

Thanks.

[Rajadurai C]

Hi Julie,

Thanks for your update.

Glad to hear that your issue has been solved. Please let us know if you have any further concerns.

Regards,
Rajadurai